Revenge Quote by John Ajvide Lindqvist Download Open image ““Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.”” — John Ajvide Lindqvist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Revenge
“Each human is created for a purpose in this life. None of these purposes is revenge.” — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
“What he really wanted was revenge. But against whom, and for what? Even if he had the energy for it, even if he could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.” — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“Revenge! No—what good would that do?—it would make him no better, and me no happier.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Revenge isn't a benefit, Lo. It’s self-gratification, an emotional response with very little logic and even less reward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do not seek power for revenge. Seek power in order to avoid situations that would make you want revenge.” — Salla Simukka Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying," Snow said. "It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“A little boy was tugging on his pant leg. 'Teacher, I have to pee.' Avila woke from his skating dreams and looked around, pointed to some trees by the shore that grew out over the water; the bare network of branches fell like a shielding curtain toward the ice. 'You can pee there.' The boy squinted at the trees. 'On… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share
This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty years without… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus. Let a person in and he hurts you. There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share
“And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions of years… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her own rapidly… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
“The best way to take revenge of me is to make me see you successful.” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . .… — James Madison Copy Share
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If someone steals my man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. A real man can't be stolen unless he wants to. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
